Cage Free vs. Pasture Raised Eggs

What is the difference between Cage Free, Free Range, and Pasture Raised Eggs?

Without talking about the taste and health elements of these eggs, I think it's important to know what the classifications ACTUALLY mean.

Because the names all sound pretty good, but what does it all really mean.

#eggs #pastureraised #chicken #foodscience

[MH-xudn]

In Australia, most eggs are free range, which is legally required to have the hens be outisde for at least 8 hours and no more than 10, 000 hens per hectare (1 hen per m^2)

[demogorghon]

Calling eggs "free range" when chickens have just a bit of concrete walkway should be criminal.

[davidban]

Eggcellent puns good sir. Now the chickens arent forced to sit in their own eggscrement.

[ctwb-]

I try to buy eggs from places where I know the chickens aren't locked away from the sun, this is really helpful 😊

[AshenHarvest]

I raise free range birds (each one has roughly 3-5ft of open land coop and run not included) and battery hens break my heart, they can barely move some of them starve because they cant walk to the food and its just a wretched practice, and every battery hen ive ever interacted with or seen has been the sweetest girls that just want to be happy in the sun, thanks for bringing attention to the difference in eggs, always good to see educational content

[ubvrox]

My mom raise chickens on her rural home, they roam around and eat bugs and food scraps. The buttery texture and color of the yolk is unlike anything you can find on a supermarket despite of label. People who never had real free raised eggs have no idea.

[Shadicals]

I am a German hillbilly and always get my eggs from my local farmer for the same price they offer them at the supermarket, only that I am not only supporting a local business but I am more than well aware that they are *actually* free ranged, with a lot of space and a good and balanced feeding.

[chunhinlee]

Can’t express how much I like your content, punny, straight to the point with thoughtful graphic explanations, just like the stainless steel cookware long vid I watched a while ago, super beginner friendly but entertaining & informative.

Great channel!

[themayorreturns]

Dont forget that due to the threat of bird flu, some farms are having to move their birds indoors. So free ranged is more of a loose term at the moment.

[TheUglyDuckling-ou]

I used to have over 30 hens, 2 roosters, and 6 ducks. They were really happy and produced A LOT of eggs (40~ per day). So much so we would often gift them to our neighbors. Someone complained though because of noise and we had to find them a home (I didn’t want them going to a slaughter house) some of our oldest chickens were 5 years old, they were the sweetest. It’s been 5 years now since they have been gone and we still get neighbors asking for eggs. We have to tell them we don’t have chickens anymore and they always leave disappointed lol. Chickens are the best pet. They are the dogs of the bird world ❤️

[scottsterner]

I used to just get regular Kirkland eggs, whatever those are, but a friend of mine had to sell his house a couple years ago, and he gave me his 26 chickens along with their coop. Now I get wonderful eggs and wonderful lil friends!!!

[miaomiaou_]

Thank you for touching on this!! It is not well-known that cage free is really not much better than caged. In addition, with free-range the chickens only have to have access to roam in the free space for something like 1/10 of their life to qualify for the free-range label. Our food industry is so cruel to animals.

[Ksweetpea]

This is a very useful video. I used to explain this all the time when i worked for a farmers market, our hens had a coop at night and access to a grass pasture during daylight. Bright, deep, orange yolks are how you spot the good ones

[rs-mtkl]

I'm so glad people around me have started selling their own eggs. They're DELICIOUS and 5 dollars for a dozen when I know the chickens are happy and loved is SO BEYOND WORTH IT

[gamingbigfats]

That’s why I have my own chickens since 2021❤

[davidchristie]

Used to work in a dessert factory in the UK, if this is an issue that you are passionate about it'd be worth checking the kinds of eggs used in products you buy from the supermarket. Cheaper supermarket own brand desserts use caged eggs for the most part, if it's a more expensive supermarket or a fancier product line it's more likely free range. Then there was a scarce few products that used our equivelent of pasture raised. Probably about 60% of the egg used overall was caged. Before I had just kind of assumed caged hens weren't really a thing anymore because shops pretty much only sell free range boxes, but I'd never considered the origin of the eggs used in products.

[GrubbsandWyrm]

I'm fortunate to know someone who raises their own chickens and sells the eggs. The size and flavor vary, but the yolk is always much richer than commercial eggs and he changed the price .50 in the last few years because feed went up, as opposed to .99 Comercial eggs costing $4 now

[ItsI]

i have chickens and i live in rural new york. I have raised these 10 hens since they were 2 days chicks and it breaks my heart that some chickens never see the light of day. This is why we let our chickens free roam on our property that has grass, grubs and give them organic food. We also make sure they always have water and are in their coop safe at the end of the day. I hope anyone with chickens gives them time and care they deserve ❤❤

[stevepeters]

I moved to exclusively buying organic eggs in the UK, which is our term for Pasture Raised except it's officially recognised by our food standards agency (although I imagine there are some differences). It does roughly double the cost of free range, though.

[manavprabhudessai]

I love the scientific approach of this channel